Saturday's UFC 158 may wind up being the biggest pay-per-view event UFC's top draw, Georges St-Pierre, has done on his own with preliminary indications that the show will top 800,000 buys.

The success of the show is even more impressive since it was achieved without a three-week Primetime series as Penn, Hardy, and Shields had to build up their title challenges. The Ultimate Fighter season with Koscheck and GSP had weekly tension between the coaches.

MMA Fighting reports that the UFC 158 Prelims which aired on FX scored an average of 1.58 million viewers for a 1.03 rating. It made it the third highest rated prelims on the FX Network.

The event was widely watched as it was reported that there were a record number of people that tuned into the weigh-ins on Fuel TV Friday as the airing received an average of 215,000 viewers. The post-fight coverage also received an average of 125,000 viewers.

CroboCop - i went to buffalo wild wings to watch the fights around 8pm (est)

usually if you get there around that time you have nothing to worry about a far as getting a seat for the fights. some families need to finish their food and get out of the way. usually you could pick whos staying and whos going by the looks of the table.

not this time. families, young teen kids (boys and girls) were staying to watch the fights.

Stephen Holder - Yeah even 800k is amazing when you consider the lack of promotion. What is Georges highest grossing ppv? Was it GSP/Penn 2?

The highest selling PPV GSP has been on was UFC 100 where he fought Thiago Alves, but most folks attribute that PPV success to Brock.

Uhh yeah you can include me in those folks. UFC 100 did like what 1.5 mil? I didn't even remember George fought on there I just remember Lesnar. That was the Carwin fight right? GSP+Brock should have done over 2 mil easy. 1.5 is abysmal in that context.

Must be trolling, if you can't even remember that UFC 100 was Brock/Mir.

Make it less obvious next time, even casual fans could tell you who Brock fought that night...

800 is not normal GSP numbers. It's a good 50K above his usual average. Check it out:

If we average out the buys listed above, you get an average of 752K PV buys.

If you take Brock/Mur out, which you really should because GSP was not the main event - you get an average of 668K buys.

So yeah, 800K+ is a better than usual numkber for GSP. And good for him & Nick! I hope they both get paid crazy.

That 800K has *got* to put a couple million in Nick's pocket. Hopefully he can use that money to either get some better things happening at his camp, or live on it for a while and just go do triathlons.

800 is not normal GSP numbers. It's a good 50K above his usual average. Check it out:

If we average out the buys listed above, you get an average of 752K PV buys.

If you take Brock/Mur out, which you really should because GSP was not the main event - you get an average of 668K buys.

So yeah, 800K+ is a better than usual numkber for GSP. And good for him & Nick! I hope they both get paid crazy.

That 800K has *got* to put a couple million in Nick's pocket. Hopefully he can use that money to either get some better things happening at his camp, or live on it for a while and just go do triathlons.

Even if you take out the Brock fight, the average for GSP over his last 5 fights and 4+ years is 795,000 buys.

With count down shows and a heavy promotional push. This one just kind of lingered out there till the conformance call days or a week before the fight.

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